Lake Kariba
Lake Kariba is the world's largest artificial lake and reservoir by volume. It lies 1,300 kilometres upstream from the mouth of the Zambezi river on the Indian Ocean, along the border between Zambia and Zimbabwe.Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Photo: SuSanA Secretariat, CC BY 2.0.
- Type: Reservoir
- Description: reservoir
- Also known as: “Kariba Reservoir” and “Lake Elizabeth”
Photo: Suesen, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Lake Kariba
- Category: body of water
- Location: Matabeleland North, Zimbabwe, Southern Africa, Africa
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Lake Kariba” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “بحيرة كاريبا”
- Armenian: “Կարիբա”
- Basque: “Kariba aintzira”
- Basque: “Kariba Lakua”
- Basque: “Kariba”
- Belarusian: “Карыба”
- Bengali: “কারিবা হ্রদ”
- Bhojpuri: “कैरीबा झील”
- Burmese: “ကရိဘကန်”
- Catalan: “llac Kariba”
- Catalan: “Llac Kariba”
- Chinese: “卡里巴水壩”
- Chinese: “卡里巴水库”
- Chinese: “卡里巴水庫”
- Chinese: “卡里巴水湖”
- Croatian: “Kariba”
- Croatian: “Umjetno jezero Kariba”
- Czech: “Kariba”
- Danish: “Karibasøen”
- Dutch: “Karibameer”
- Dutch: “Karibastuwdam”
- Esperanto: “Kariba”
- Estonian: “Kariba järv”
- Finnish: “Karibajärvi”
- French: “lac Kariba”
- French: “Lac Kariba”
- Georgian: “კარიბა”
- German: “Karibastausee”
- Hausa: “Tafkin Kariba”
- Hebrew: “אגם קאריבה”
- Hindi: “कैरीबा झील”
- Hungarian: “Kariba-tó”
- Indonesian: “Danau Kariba”
- Irish: “Loch Kariba”
- Italian: “lago Kariba”
- Italian: “Lago Kariba”
- Japanese: “カリバ湖”
- Latvian: “Karibas ezers”
- Lithuanian: “Karibos ežeras”
- Lithuanian: “Karibos tvenkinys”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Kariba”
- Norwegian: “Karibasjøen”
- Persian: “دریاچه کاریبا”
- Polish: “Kariba”
- Portuguese: “Lago Cariba”
- Portuguese: “Lago Kariba”
- Russian: “Кариба”
- Russian: “Озеро Кариба”
- Serbian: “Kariba”
- Serbian: “Кариба”
- Slovak: “Karibská vodná nádrž”
- Slovenian: “Zajezitveno jezero Kariba”
- Spanish: “Lago Kariba”
- Swedish: “Kariba”
- Swedish: “Karibasjön”
- Swedish: “Lake Kariba”
- Tamil: “கரிபா ஏரி”
- Turkish: “Kariba Gölü”
- Ukrainian: “Кариба”
- Ukrainian: “Каріба”
- Vietnamese: “Hồ Kariba”
- Welsh: “Llyn Kariba”
- “कैरीबा झील”
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